Question follow-through · 84585
Ambulance Services: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of attempted suicides attended by ambulance staff.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 39 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of attempted suicides attended by ambulance staff.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department has made no such assessment and there are currently no plans to collect this data centrally.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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